Assumptions: He is a criminal, burglar may be rapist, mugger. He is a bad man! The reason for these assumptions is his inheritance. He is black.
Infact, he defines himself as softy and one of the good men.
Tough Guy Image
Man of colour need to have a masculine posture in order to gain respect. So, black people use their body to frigten people. They try to look tough, scare people and use violence in order to prove themselves.
"You gotta look man or people won't respect you. White people will run over you if you don't look man. You gotta look like warrior!" (TOUGH GUISE)
These image makes people to think that, "black people are dangerous"(a stereotype). In our story, the reactions against a black man is a result of this kind of stereotypes and the tough image of black people. But, our black man is innocent:( He is not one of the young thugs. Addition to that, he is tolerated because he can understand the reason of people's bad reactions against him. Thus, he take some precautions in order to make himself less threating. For example, he whistles melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi, he exchanges business clothes with jeans and so on.
who WILL afraid of him:)???
Before:)
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After:) (new style and here is peace:))
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A very nice way of bringing ENG 101 and 102 together :))
ReplyDeleteI really liked your comments on black men because I'm thinking like you. There is nothing wrong with their appereance or humanity.I think the main problem is how people is getting picture from their prejudice or thinking ways, when they could see black men/women.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to add a comment to your lovely informations that black men had to look like tough guys because If they do not look like as a strong man, there might could not get respect from other people. You know they had bad history in USA and I guess they think that they had to look like as a strong & mascular otherwise they could hurt easily both emotionaly and physically like before.;)